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SouthernTransplant

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09/04/2012 10:23AM

I was fishing on Lake Agnes last weekend and caught a small walleye that was completely red/orange and had a single spike on the top back corner of each gill plate, making it near impossible to not get stuck.

I've never encountered a walleye like that before and I was curious if it could have been a hybrid of some kind. If I get a picture of it from the other guy on the canoe I'll follow up with a post of it soon.

Thanks for any info!

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Basspro69

09/04/2012 04:55PM

quote SouthernTransplant: "I was fishing on Lake Agnes last weekend and caught a small walleye that was completely red/orange and had a single spike on the top back corner of each gill plate, making it near impossible to not get stuck.

I've never encountered a walleye like that before and I was curious if it could have been a hybrid of some kind. If I get a picture of it from the other guy on the canoe I'll follow up with a post of it soon.

Thanks for any info! "

Sounds like you're descibing a jumbo perch, would love to see a picture .

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thebotanyguy

09/04/2012 05:13PM

The small spine on the top back corner of the gill plate is indicative of a sculpin but the color you describe is not. I suppose there could be some color variation due to the water color, but red/orange seems to be an EXTREME variation.

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PINETREE

09/05/2012 08:17AM

quote SouthernTransplant: "I was fishing on Lake Agnes last weekend and caught a small walleye that was completely red/orange and had a single spike on the top back corner of each gill plate, making it near impossible to not get stuck.

I've never encountered a walleye like that before and I was curious if it could have been a hybrid of some kind. If I get a picture of it from the other guy on the canoe I'll follow up with a post of it soon.

Thanks for any info! "

I never have seen a walleye hybrid or heard of one except for a sauger and walleye could hybridize. We need a picture. How big was it? Did it have a white tip on its lower tail(if it had that it was a walleye)?

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SouthernTransplant

Guest Paddler

09/06/2012 10:21AM

The fish was about 10 inches long. I'm not sure about the white tip, hopefully the pic will answer that question!

I've done some searching since the post and can't seem to find any answers. The more I think about this fish, the more confused I get. I almost want to go back up to Agnes and try and catch the little guy again just to make sure I'm not crazy!

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apugarcia

09/06/2012 10:43AM

You're definitely crazy.

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fitgers1

09/06/2012 12:32PM

Looking forward to the photo of this fish.

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friman001

09/06/2012 05:52PM

yes, please post photo, I am extremely curious

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egknuti

09/06/2012 05:54PM

There are sauger in Agnes. They look very much like a walleye. My bet it was a sauger.

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overthehill

09/06/2012 07:13PM

quote egknuti: "There are sauger in Agnes. They look very much like a walleye. My bet it was a sauger. "

If there are sauger...couldn't there be saug- eyes?

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emptynest56

09/06/2012 08:06PM

There are sauger and saugeyes in Agnes. I have caught them. Pure saugers have no white tail but the saugeyes have characteristics of both. MN fish records. Scroll all the way down to the walleye-sauger hybrid. Quite a big fish.

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Moonman

09/06/2012 08:10PM

yes there are Sauger/walleye hybrids. In-Fisherman did an article on this back in around 1990 or so.

I'm betting its a perch, although could be a sauger as they average much smaller than walleyes.

The 'barb' on the gill plate is the perch giveaway for me.

Moonman.

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mr.barley